Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Campaigner McKeldin-like D'Alesandro before him-found himself the victim of time's toll and the itch for change. In a dull campaign, pleasant, smiling Harold Grady paraded his past (onetime FBI agent, state's attorney for Baltimore city) and his children (four), vaguely mentioned urban renewal and the city's sagging transit system. But taking office next week, Grady will undergo a sudden, cold-shower lesson in humility. Like every large U.S. city, Baltimore is staggering under booming population, a tax squeeze, demands for more schools, housing and municipal services...
...date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet house, he found Donald Aubrey Quarles, 64, dead in his bed of a heart attack...
Freedom Leap. Fortnight ago two Burmese physicians were excitedly summoned by a Russian woman embassy doctor to Stryguine's fashionable 42 Inya Road address. They found Stryguine in a deep coma from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was surrounded by Russians who only reluctantly let the critically sick man be moved to Rangoon General Hospital. Two Soviet toughs went along to watch...
...years of investigating labor rackets, the U.S. Senate committee headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan has found corruption under rock after rock-and on more than one occasion the enterprising U.S. press has helped the committee turn over the rocks. But last week the McClellan committee took a look at some of the press's own labor relations and found corruption, if not under a rock, at least on the New York loading docks. In three days of testimony it became all too clear that over a period of many years New York dailies have been paying...
...speak with equal authority on both subjects, since agencies that are responsible for the development of atomic weapons (AEC, Department of Defense) have different objectives from groups that are concerned primarily with the control of disease (e.g., the Public Health Service). Nonetheless, the scientists found agreement in several areas: fallout patterns vary in different parts of the world; debris comes to earth more rapidly than was once thought. And some new information was made public...